Why are the God’s Knights Such Sick Sadists?

One Piece Chapter 1143 Review/Recap

On the last piece of One Piece, the evil God’s Knights started putting their plans to conquer Elbaph into motion. Somehow, they managed to bring the monsters the children of the Walrus School drew to life, wreaking havoc. Then, while the adults were distracted, they pulled a Pied Piper and started having the kids sleepwalk to a place they chose. Meanwhile, Luffy, Zoro, and Sanji are faced with a now-freed Loki demanding they unlock his last seastone cuff. He sets fire to part of the Adam tree for extra incentive, threatening to burn Elbaph to the ground! However, is Loki only playing into everyone’s perception of him because he knows the threat the God’s Knights pose? It would make sense; the God’s Knights are absolute sadists! Just wait until you see what they do while watching everything happen!

Recap

Things continue to get worse at the Walrus school. Robin and Chopper join Saul as he follows the sleepwalking children, trying to figure out what’s happening. However, when Saul tries to touch the kids, he’s stabbed by invisible thorns!

Back at the party, the warriors of Elbaph hear that things are falling apart: the kids are sleepwalking away, a fire has broken out, and giant monsters are loose. One of them even swats down the svar sent to extinguish the fire!

Meanwhile, the God’s Knights are eating lunch at their vantage point, and Sommers is laughing like a sick sadist! He thinks the idea that the kid’s parents will kill themselves trying to get through his Thorn-Thorn Fruit’s powers is hilarious! With the thorns surrounding the kids and the adults dealing with the monsters that Killingham’s Kirin Devil Fruit created, nothing can stop them. They’ll bring the kids to the harbor, steal a ship, and take them back to Mariejois as hostages. However, Gunko brings up a potential wild card: Straw Hat Luffy is in Elbaph.

Back in the Underworld, the Straw Hat’s Monster Trio and Hadrujin’s crew are facing down Loki. The giant demands they surrender and let him leave, or he’ll kill them. However, Zoro claims that Loki’s bluffing—and he’s right. When Luffy hits him, the rogue prince falls over from blood loss. Zoro doubts he could’ve even escaped.

Regardless, Luffy asks Gerd to save Loki because he has unfinished business with him. However, Hadrujin remembers all the times Loki bullied him as a kid, and he snaps before trying to kill him. His crew stops him, but Loki calls him out for letting his personal feelings cloud his judgment. He then drops a bombshell question, asking him if he believes Loki killed their dad in cold blood.

Review

Just when you think the Celestial Dragons couldn’t disgust you any further, they lower the bar yet again. Kidnapping the giant kids to use as hostages is already evil. However, the fact that Sommers is using his Devil Fruit to make it so any parents could kill themselves trying to save their kids? All while laughing like it’s the funniest thing in the world? It takes a sick sadist to think that’s funny. Then again, most of the Celestial Dragons are hedonistic monsters. Their being sadists is to be expected.

Speaking of sadists, this chapter confirms that Killingham’s Dragon-Dragon Fruit, Model: Kirin is the cause of the kid’s plight. Not only can he put people to sleep, he can then extract anything they dream about and bring it into the real world. Considering how powerful dreams can get, that is a genuinely terrifying power, especially in the hands of a Celestial Dragon. Imagine if he used that power on one of the stronger Straw Hats like Luffy?!

Oda is killing it with Loki!

As for what’s happening on Luffy’s end, I think readers were just as surprised that Loki keeled over so quickly. Oda did a masterful job of tricking us into thinking Loki was more durable than we thought. In addition, the mythical Loki would have him try and bluff his way out of a fight. Well-played, Oda!

The real highlight of the chapter, though, has to be that final page. The manga has dropped several hints that the story behind what Loki did isn’t wholly accurate. This has led many fans to speculate that Loki killed Harald to protect the whole of Elbaph, but nobody would believe him. He could still be lying, but given how quickly Zoro called his bluff, I don’t think he is. Hopefully, the next few chapters shed some more light on the matter.

This was a great chapter to return to, and helps to build upon the rising action as the Elbaph Arc gets underway. For everyone’s sake, I hope Luffy can stop those sadists! Because now that the God’s Knights know he’s in Elbaph, the Straw Hats will need to pull out all the stops to save the giants.

I Give “God’s Knights” a 4/5

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